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I am a strong supporter of intermodal; trucks & trains have got to work together. I think that trains are part of the solution to truck driver shortage plus the
by jfhubbard 11y ago
I am a strong supporter of intermodal; trucks & trains have got to work together. I think that trains are part of the solution to truck driver shortage plus they have lots of other benefits (environmental etc..).
I think that there is a great opportunity to make intermodal more efficient and to create more truck/train interface points and to make them more efficient. A lot of work to do. Opportunity for big application of capital AND software.
- Aloha 11y agoI'm a former OTR driver now working in telecom and as a sysadmin (still with active CDL however). How do you propose to solve the delay issues at each end of the rail journey, do you think shippers can be made to accept longer transit times? I'd love to see the median length for a TL trip come down to like 150 miles.
- jfhubbard 11y agoHow do I propose to solve the delay issue? I don't have a solution but I think that there is a lot of value in finding one! I guess that that is part of what I was hinting at when I said that the solution needed a lot of capital investment and software. There is a lot of work to do and a lot of investment to be made. I wish that some of the effort that was going into self driving vehicles would go into making intermodal operations smoother. I think there would be a huge payoff.
- mcv 11y agoTruck driver shortage? Someone else mentioned they sometimes get only 20 cents per mile. How can wages be so low when there's a shortage?
- jfhubbard 11y agoPay rates are certainly part of the driver shortage problem; but it's not the only reason for shortage. My company is trying to help trucking companies identify their best drivers so that they can know where to focus their employee retention efforts (pay, recognition etc...)